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Microsoft Reveals How Hackers Are Using GenAI Tools

Analytics Vidhya

Microsoft, in collaboration with OpenAI, has revealed a concerning trend in the realm of cybersecurity: the utilization of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) by hostile states for offensive cyber operations. Highlighting the involvement of countries such as Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China, Microsoft sheds light on the evolving landscape of cyber warfare.

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Master The Art Of Command Line With This GitHub Repository

KDnuggets

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced user, this guide is perfect for familiarizing yourself with basic and advanced command line tools.

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Why is Facebook chirping and how to stop it?

Dataconomy

“Why is Facebook chirping when I scroll?” is today’s question for millions of users of Facebook, including me. Ever been scrolling through Facebook on your iPhone, only to hear a weird sound that seems to come out of nowhere? You’re not alone. Some iPhone users have noticed this odd “newsfeed sound” while browsing their social media updates.

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Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors

Hacker News

We terminated accounts associated with state-affiliated threat actors. Our findings show our models offer only limited, incremental capabilities for malicious cybersecurity tasks.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, we’ll explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, we’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in decision-making, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation. Attendees will leave with practical tools and actionable insights, motivated to embrace AI and leverage its potential in their work. 🦸 🏢 Key objectives:

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Top Data Science Specializations for 2024

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Data Science is everywhere in the 21st century and has emerged as an innovative field. But what exactly is Data Science? And why should one consider specializing in it? This blog post aims to answer these questions and more. Data Science is a multidisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to […] The post Top Data Science Specializations for 2024 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Generative AI Playground: Text-to-Image Stable Diffusion with Stability AI, Stable Diffusion XL, and CompVis on the Latest Intel® GPU

KDnuggets

Stable Diffusion models are revolutionizing digital artistry, transforming mere text into stunning, lifelike images. Explore further here.

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How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix

Hacker News

Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with Comcast and HBO, and exclusive access to the biggest football leagues in the world.

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Race and Occupation

FlowingData

About 22 percent of physicians in the United States are Asian, but Asian people only make up about 6 percent of the full working population. Compare the former to the latter, and you could say that Asian people are about 3.5 times more likely to be physicians. Are there other jobs that jump out? What’s it like for other races and ethnicity?

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7 Steps to Mastering Exploratory Data Analysis

KDnuggets

A Step-by-Step Approach to Unearthing Trends, Outliers, and Insights in your Data.

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Oracle Cloud Has Achieved Momentum Through Differentiation

MoorInsights for Forbes

Analyst Matt Kimball explores Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's performance and products of 2023 to explain how it is succeeding in a market dominated by the Big Three CSPs.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law

Hacker News

Amazon alleged in a legal filing published Friday morning that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is unconstitutional. SpaceX and Trader Joe’s — companies that, like Amazon, have repeatedly faced labor law violations from the federal agency — have recently made similar attacks that threaten national worker protections.

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Ask a Data Ethicist: Can We Trust Unexplainable AI?

Dataversity

In last month’s column, I asked readers to send in their “big questions” when it comes to data and AI. This month’s question more than answered that call! It encompasses the enormous areas of trust in AI tools and explainability. How can we know if an AI tool is delivering an ethical result if we have […] The post Ask a Data Ethicist: Can We Trust Unexplainable AI?

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Large Language Models Explained in 3 Levels of Difficulty

KDnuggets

Simple explanations, no matter what your level is right now.

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Unveiling the transformative AI technology behind watsonx Orders

IBM Journey to AI blog

You’re headed to your favorite drive-thru to grab fries and a cheeseburger. It’s a simple order and as you pull in you notice there isn’t much of a line. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty. The restaurant is near a busy freeway with roaring traffic noise and airplanes fly low overhead as they approach the nearby airport. It’s windy.

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Entity Resolution: Your Guide to Deciding Whether to Build It or Buy It

Adding high-quality entity resolution capabilities to enterprise applications, services, data fabrics or data pipelines can be daunting and expensive. Organizations often invest millions of dollars and years of effort to achieve subpar results. This guide will walk you through the requirements and challenges of implementing entity resolution. By the end, you'll understand what to look for, the most common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid, and your options.

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Stop Basing Your Self-Worth on Other People’s Opinions

Hacker News

Self-worth is our set of core beliefs about our value as a human being. It’s how we see ourselves and who we perceive ourselves to be. People differ in what they believe they must be or do to have worth or value. When we externalize our self-worth, we get emotionally and chemically rewarded when we succeed. This inevitably turns into a never-ending loop in pursuit of instant gratification.

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Apple Vision Pro: A Beautiful, Flawed Bridge To The Future

MoorInsights for Forbes

Longtime XR analyst Anshel Sag takes a deep dive into the Apple Vision Pro headset after a week of using it, adding his insights on what it means for the XR industry.

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Direct Uses of Large Language Models in Modern Science and Technology

Towards AI

Author(s): LucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. An overview plus examples from the public and private sectors applying cutting-edge LLMs to research and developmentImage composed by the author from free screenshots and Dall-E-3 generations. All other figures of this post were generated in similar ways. In the age of big data and in a highly scientific and technological society where fundamental and applied research advances with huge steps, it is clear that AI

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Reducing defects and downtime with AI-enabled automated inspections

IBM Journey to AI blog

A large, multinational automobile manufacturer responsible for producing millions of vehicles annually, engaged with IBM to streamline their manufacturing processes with seamless, automated inspections driven by real-time data and artificial intelligence (AI). As an automobile manufacturer, our client has an inherent duty to provide high-quality products.

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The Project Clinic: Assessing Project Health, Planning, and Execution

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar

Picture your projects as patients, each with its own unique rhythm and pulse, thriving under your care 🥼 🩺 Step into the role of an innovative project doctor in our upcoming webinar! This session is your guide to evaluating the health of your projects through Waterfall and Agile practices like Scrum and Kanban. We’ll explore the vital signs of project success through the lens of the “iron triangle” metrics, using deliverables as tracers.

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Tesla Sold Only One Car in Korea in January

Hacker News

Tesla Inc. sold just one electric vehicle in South Korea in January as a raft of headwinds, from safety concerns to price and a lack of charging infrastructure, weigh on demand.

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Diva-ness of national anthem renditions

FlowingData

You’ve probably heard various renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner, and sometimes singers put a little extra something in the anthem. A bit of flourish. Some attitude. For The Pudding, Jan Diehm and Michelle McGhee quantified that extra something into what they’ve dubbed a Diva Score. Out of the 138 versions they scored, the highest belong to Chaka Khan at the 2020 NBA All-Star game and Patti Labelle at the 2008 World Series.

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Build generative AI chatbots using prompt engineering with Amazon Redshift and Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

With the advent of generative AI solutions, organizations are finding different ways to apply these technologies to gain edge over their competitors. Intelligent applications, powered by advanced foundation models (FMs) trained on huge datasets, can now understand natural language, interpret meaning and intent, and generate contextually relevant and human-like responses.

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A beginner’s guide to making beautiful slides for your talks

Ines Montani

I’ve done quite a bit of conference speaking over the years, and I love designing slides and coming up with a new visual theme for each topic. It’s fun and keeps me motivated to put in the work and actually write my talks. People often ask me for tips and tooling recommendations, so in this guide, I’m sharing some of my not-so-secret secrets and three beginner-friendly steps for how you can up your slides game for the upcoming conference season!

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Demystifying DAPs: A Practical Guide to Digital Adoption Success

Speaker: Pulkit Agrawal

Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs) are revolutionizing the way organizations interact with and optimize their software applications. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, DAPs have become essential tools for enhancing user engagement and software efficiency. This session is your guide into the robust world of DAPs, exploring their origins, evolution, and the current trends shaping their development.

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Trading trust

Hacker News

The Brookings Institution did a fascinating survey series over the last five years. I have two takeways from this: The first is that focused and persistent propaganda is able to shift public opinion about institutions they don’t have direct interaction with. The more important one is this: Many companies, particularly tech ones, are deliberately trading trust for short-term profits.

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Video generation models as world simulators

Hacker News

We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our largest model, Sora, is capable of generating a minute of high fidelity video.

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Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose

Hacker News

Well, it turns out it’s not a bug that broke iPhone web apps, also known as progressive web apps (PWAs), in the EU. Following developer complaints and press reports about how PWAs were no longer functional in the EU after installing the most recent iOS betas, Apple has updated its website to explain why.

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Chlormequat in food and urine from adults in the United States from 2017 to 2023

Hacker News

Chlormequat chloride is a plant growth regulator whose use on grain crops is on the rise in North America. Toxicological studies suggest that exposure to chlormequat can reduce fertility and harm the developing fetus at doses lower than those used by regulatory agencies to set allowable daily intake levels. Here we report, the presence of chlormequat in urine samples collected from people in the U.S., with detection frequencies of 69%, 74%, and 90% for samples collected in 2017, 2018–2022,

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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Solar & Battery Storage to Make Up 81% of New U.S. Electric-Generating Capacity in 2024

Hacker News

Developers and power plant owners plan to add 62.8 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity in 2024, according to. [continued] The post Solar & Battery Storage to Make Up 81% of New U.S. Electric-Generating Capacity in 2024 appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise

Hacker News

My goal was to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of an incredible Dixieland jazz band made up of mostly Disney employees, the Firehouse Five Plus Two. But along the way, I accidentally discovered an incredible lost song that was cut from Walt Disney's Cinderella. And you're about to hear it too. Let's go.

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Suikoden creator Yoshitaka Murayama has passed away at 55

Hacker News

Rabbit & Bear Studios 株式会社は、多くのJRPG制作に関わってきたクリエーターが集結し立ち上げた開発会社です。Rabbit & Bear Studios Inc. is a development company established by game creators with a long history of working on JRPGs.

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U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails

Hacker News

The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence , which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. But until it was notified last week, U.S. Internet was publishing more than a decade’s worth of its internal email — and that of thousands of Securence clients — in plain text out on the Internet and just a click away for anyone with a Web browser

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr